Economic Profile of the Upper Mississippi River Region
ECONOMIC PROFILE OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER REGION INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, INCORPORATED 2067 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140 Economic Profile of the Upper Mississippi River Region Prepared for: Division of Economics U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Department of the Interior Prepared by: Robert Black, Bruce McKenney, Alane O’Connor, Erin Gray, and Robert Unsworth Industrial Economics, Incorporated 2067 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140 March 1999 Acknowledgements We wish to thank John Charbonneau and Lynn Lewis of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Bruce Carlson of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for their review of the report and insightful comments and suggestions. We are also grateful to Holly Stoerker of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association for helping us identify initial contacts and providing research assistance. We also extend our thanks to the people who offered their comments at a briefing on the draft report on February 8, 1999 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to John Charbonneau, Lynn Lewis, and Bruce Carlson, attendees included Bill Hartwig (USFWS), John Blankenship (USFWS), Marvin Moriarty (USFWS), Barbara Naramore (Upper Mississippi River Basin Association), and Matt Kerschbaum (USFWS) . The draft report was distributed to a number of interested parties in addition to the reviewers listed above. We thank the following people for their review and comments: Terry Moe (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources), John Duvyejonck (USFWS), James Williams (Missouri Department of Natural Resources), Bob Delaney (U.S. Geological Services), Dick Lambert (Minnesota Department of Transportation), and Dan Ray (The McKnight Foundation). Finally, we wish to thank the many people that provided valuable information for the report.
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